Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behaviour. In this article, we investigate to what extent ethnicity affects Ukrainian labour market outcomes. Using microdata from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and increasing labour market divide between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians ...
Diese Studie analysiert die Kosten des unfreiwilligen Arbeitsplatzverlustes in den Schwellenländern Russland und China. Im Falle Russlands benutzen wir die Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) Daten für die Jahre 2003-2008, einschließlich einer Zusatzumfrage zum Thema Trennungen von Arbeitsverhältnissen im Jahre 2008. Für China benutzen wir eine Stichprobe von Migranten und eine Stichprobe ...
Dieser Aufsatz stellt erste Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang von gewaltsamem Konflikt, Beschäftigung und Unterentwicklung zusammenfassend dar. Bisher wurden diese drei Themenkomplexe in der Ökonomie selten gemeinsam diskutiert, was sowohl für die Analyse als auch für Empfehlung entwicklungspolitischer Maßnahmen nachteilig sein könnte. Durch Beispiele aus seiner eigenen Forschung illustriert der Autor, ...
This cumulative dissertation consists of three contributions that empirically analyse economic risks at the level of the individual and the household from different perspectives. The first analysis "Future public pensions and changing employment patterns across cohorts" aims to quantify the effects of labour market changes and pension reforms across birth cohorts in East and West Germany. The pension ...
The paper assesses the heterogeneity of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to estimate a continuous dose-response function that relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, ...
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique increase in self-employment in Germany ...
